September, 1957, looters tunneled d

September, 1957, looters tunneled down to the two-level crypt inside the main prang and carted away valuable treasures. The police managed to apprehend some of them. With the discovery, the Fine Arts Department stepped in to excavate the site. Buddha images and other gold artifacts were discovered. They also discovered murals covering the walls of the crypt. Due to the vast collect of Buddha images and votive tablets found in the crypt, the government approved that some of these be given as gifts to the people who had contributed to the building of the Chao Sam Phraya National Museum, which houses most of the treasures of Wat Ratchaburana